Originally Posted by
phughes
I really want nothing that will distract a driver. During the day, I will run blinking red lights on the rear, along with my solid red light mounted on the rack. At night, all my lights are solid. I want to be seen, but I don't want a light that will make them fixate on me. People tend to fixate, and look at odd lights at night. You go where you are looking. In motorcycle riding, we call it target fixation. You look at a hazard, and fixate on it, and ride right into it. I don't want to give any reason for a car driver to fixate on me.
A huge massive +1 on this.
Here is some info on the subject in case one wants to learn more granted a good deal of it is Motorsickle related but you can figure around it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation
https://www.idrivesafely.com/defensi...rcycle-problem
https://www.cycleworld.com/sport-rid...rget-fixation/